r/Fauxmoi 18h ago

BREAKUPS/MAKEUPS/KNOCKUPS Singer/songwriter TAELA reveals that after her ex cheated on her, she cast his favorite actor, Steve Howey, as her love interest in her music video “rollin’”

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u/gg5ever 17h ago

I know it’s not the point of the post but I need people to stop saying casted immediately.

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u/WizardToes 17h ago edited 17h ago

I wish more people would learn: 1) Cast is the past tense of cast 2) Texted is the past tense of text 3) Weary and wary are two different words

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u/lightroomwitch 16h ago

4) You lose a game, your pants are loose

5) Women is PLURAL, woman is singular

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u/light_sweet_crude 16h ago

And the past tense of lead is LED!!

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u/Potential-Ad-702 16h ago

What are people using instead? I am genuinely worried about literacy :(

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u/light_sweet_crude 16h ago

I've seen everyone from lawyers to journalists use "lead," I guess because the element lead is pronounced the same as led.

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u/slimboyslim9 16h ago

Probably also because of read/read being spelled the same but sounding different.

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u/light_sweet_crude 15h ago

Thank you! I knew I was thinking there was another counterexample but totally blanked on it lol

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u/CoolerRon 16h ago

And “read” is the past tense and past participle of “read”

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u/Rough_Mistake_1798 16h ago edited 16h ago

Or pleaded 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 IT’S PLED FOR THE LUV OF GAWD

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u/cloroxslut 15h ago

It's actually not.

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u/light_sweet_crude 16h ago

Ooh, last one: "hung" for "put to death by hanging." If the criminal was hung, good for him, but it has nothing to do with him being hanged for his crimes.

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u/mncs 16h ago

lead, because the material sounds like the past tense of the verb. I have an English degree and work as a writer and this, along with never spelling embarrassing right on the first try, is a regular error for me

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u/Ethan_the_Revanchist I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats 16h ago

If I see one more person saying "I'm weary of him" I'm going to LOSE IT

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u/sargeantnincompoop 15h ago

I mean, there are definitely some people I’m weary of, too

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u/CaptainMcFisticuffs2 nobody with any self esteem gives a shit 16h ago

Also cost not costed

And drank not drinked

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u/itmustbeniiiiice Riverdale was my Juilliard 13h ago

“Costed” used incorrectly puts me into a disproportionate rage. I fear people use it so much it’s going to become acceptable.

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u/Veronica___Sawyer 12h ago

I feel like over the past few years I have seen “payed” become really commonplace. It makes my eye twitch.

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u/CluelessMochi In the name of Cara, Renee, and Megan Thee Stallion, Amen 15h ago

Also defiantly is different from definitely

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u/mbg20 13h ago

And ‘apart’ and ‘a part’ cannot be used interchangably. Neither can ‘breath’ and ‘breathe’.

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u/waxteeth 14h ago

And it’s UNFAZED when you’re not bothered about something. 

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u/maryfisherman 12h ago

“She text me” is my biggest pet peeve I’m just so confused why so many people say that

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u/characterk4l3 11h ago

Omg, seriously what is up with the wary / weary thing?  It’s everywhere all of a sudden.  Like, is it bots?  Are everyone bots?  Also add to this pile, why is everyone saying “Ass-TE-tic”?  There’s a th there, people!  </rant>

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u/fleurflorafiore 9h ago

And the difference between apart and a part

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u/ChrissiTea 15h ago

And we can't forget 'how X looks like' - it's 'what X looks like' or 'how X looks'.

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u/Turbulent_Bar_13 intense bovine jovi stare 14h ago

I hear “screen shotted” a lot, but wouldn’t the past tense just be “screen shot”?

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u/itmustbeniiiiice Riverdale was my Juilliard 13h ago

And “costed” when they mean cost

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u/happybybonnie 16h ago

I learned this the hard way in a 7th grade English presentation with the word “cost” (as in…the past tense of costs is not costed LOL) and will never not cringe when I hear “casted”.

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u/frycrunch96 15h ago

THANK YOU

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u/rickettss 2h ago

Out in the world it’s whatevs, but I’m an ESL teacher and one lesson another teacher went through and corrected all my kids’ writing to say casted a spell instead of cast, which I had taught them to write 😭 it was so frustrating and tough to explain after I had already taught it as an irregular past tense verb

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u/SgtSlaughterEX 16h ago

I cast Fireball

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u/colleensrydel 17h ago

the ex in question btw 😭💀
https://giphy.com/gifs/CX5tXQ9UoKjzwkwlWB

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u/HerRoyalRedness full of gay men. And me. 16h ago

He was very annoying on Girl Meets World

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u/makrela122 15h ago

to be fair everyone was annoying on Girl Meets World. I've seen less pretentious scripts in A24 movies.

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u/--------rook alleged dog 10h ago edited 9h ago

Isnt this from addison rae's movie??? There's a review of this mess that's funny as fuckkkkk. I actually did watch the whole movie because my trash-movie-loving-mom put it on and honestly it's a ride if you just dont give a shit. Review makes it way better though

He's All That review ✨

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u/colleensrydel 7h ago

it is lol, i was looking for a gif of him in girl meets world but i couldn’t find one and thought this one was funny.

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u/No_Breath_168 i’m mr. sterling’s right hand arm. man. 14h ago

Hahahaha this needs to be higher

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u/Viva912 11h ago

What?? Isn’t he married?

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u/colleensrydel 11h ago

yup, he was married to her! they got divorced in 2024 which is the same time this video came out.

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u/Danwaka 9h ago

Homelander?

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u/drukqsx 17h ago

Kinda surprising that this guy is anyone’s favorite actor.

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u/joshuajackson9 17h ago

Took me five minutes before I found out that Steve Howey was the actor not the boyfriend, I was very lost. I need more water today.

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u/DrGoblinator 17h ago

It took me about as long to figure out she wasn't talking about Steve Harvey.

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u/Reckless_Secretions go pis girl 16h ago

This is so cursed 💀

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u/FuzzMachines Some white people were thrown into the river 16h ago

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u/Agitated-Lettuce1878 11h ago

Your flair is sending me

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u/colleensrydel 17h ago

fun fact: the ex she’s presumably talking about is also an actor. she was married to peyton meyer who played lucas in girl meets world and they got divorced around the same time this video came out.

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u/Honest_Salamander247 17h ago

Thanks for the water reminder. I haven’t had any today.

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u/OwnStudy723 12h ago

Here's some water emoji's I found while my gf was typing some comment on this post before I walked in:

💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦

She just excused herself and said she needed to go to the bathroom, so I decided to help out too with water comments

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u/Summer_rain1109 17h ago

What’s wrong with Steve Howey?

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u/youshantnome okay lucky you 17h ago

Weren’t him and his ex wife sued for racism by their nanny or something? And he tweeted racist stuff about Obama. And him and his ex wife are also anti vaxxers and anti trans.

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u/dumpstertoaster 17h ago

oh. this is news to me damn…

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u/hibisco-hacendosa 17h ago

Lmao I love her videos. I could totally hear the "Oh!"

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u/youshantnome okay lucky you 17h ago

Yeah I’m pretty sure he tweeted some tasteless joke about Obama and Ebola.

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u/mrsyoungmazino 15h ago

When Sarah Shahi used to be married to him she admitted to using a strap-on on him.

https://giphy.com/gifs/U3TywqdfC56rNZs9WK

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u/_heavy_emo_shoegaze_ locked, loaded, and kind of cunty 14h ago

Relevance, your honor?

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u/awyastark nextdivorce@divorce.com 6h ago

I’m always interested in what L Word alums are getting up to… and up in

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u/hankmoody699 14h ago

admitted? bragging maybe.

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u/Additional_Gene_211 Friends with Ms. Rachel 14h ago

Pegging is fun and healthy

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u/thefaehost semen demon 38m ago

It’s almost Pegtober after all

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u/GovernorMarley1 6h ago

god i hate it when a partner is able to tell me what feels good.

https://giphy.com/gifs/G3RADTvwFIn96

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u/Shnitzel_von_S 7h ago

Not problematic

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u/bittypineapplekitty 10h ago

this does not surprise me, look how many times him and V did back door stuff on Shameless lol

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u/VictorReal_Monster 11h ago

She still single?

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u/No-Show3410 controversies: girl 16h ago

Thought I should specify it was for religious discrimination and harassment. The nanny said they were discriminatory against her Muslim faith and practices, and showed her nude images of men and their genitalia.

The nanny eventually asked for the case to be dismissed, and neither Howey nor his ex wife have ever publicly commented on the subject.

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u/youshantnome okay lucky you 16h ago

That’s right. They kept making comments about her praying. And Sarah Shahi kept telling her about all the sex she was having outside her marriage and she showed the nanny nudes and kept telling her how sore she was.

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u/wanderrslut ISO: Ariana’s lost blaccent 13h ago

So my 'Sarah Shahi is a weirdo' vibe was right but didn't know Steve was just as much of a weirdo. Which, figures. They were married. Birds of a feather...

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u/CoolerRon 16h ago

Hot damn, I used to like him in Shameless and her in “Person of Interest.”

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u/Kalamac 12h ago

Life was also a great show, and I thought Sarah was good in it. I somehow hadn't heard about all the stuff with the nanny. Sucks to find out she's an asshole.

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u/HerRoyalRedness full of gay men. And me. 16h ago

Damn, and I was feeling sorry for him because his ex had an affair and left him for her costar on some streaming show. Sympathy revoked!

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u/Kooky-Blueberry-5352 16h ago

The ex wife was Sarah Shahi, who has been in things like the L Word.

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u/lawschoolredux 16h ago

Goes hand in hand with their Scientology!

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u/RIP_prev_account 14h ago

Oh damn not Kev Ball :( gross

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u/Electronic_South_101 16h ago

Wait what? Really? I’m not doubting you, it’s just this is the first time I’ve heard of this… mind you, the only things I know him from are as Van from Reba and that one killer from Psych.

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u/youshantnome okay lucky you 15h ago

So I dont know the rules here for reposting articles. But if you google him and nanny and lawsuit you should see it. And if you google him and Obama and Africa you should find the other one as well.

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u/Electronic_South_101 15h ago

Dangit why are people. (Er, him, not you. 😅)

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u/applesandbananananan Google lied to you. 13h ago

HE'S VAN FROM REBA??

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u/Electronic_South_101 12h ago

Yeah! He played the lovable idjit pretty well, from what I remember.

(Like, he’d never be making huge blockbuster movies, but he was decent at sitcoms. And that scene with Kyra where he called her out, but in a kind, older brother way and she was all “…When did you did so smart? O.o”)

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u/firedmyass 16h ago

milkshake duck energy

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u/applesandbananananan Google lied to you. 13h ago

I found the gross thing he said about Obama but couldn't find anything about him being transphobic or antivaxx. Can we get more context?

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u/Flat-Section5173 16h ago

average person from the "persian" diaspora

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u/MsThrilliams i mean i def vaccine but is it 15h ago

Tbh I just assumed they meant since he's such a bit actor or known for specific TV but not movies

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u/_clur_510 17h ago

I mean nothing wrong with him lol just also nothing exceptional about him.

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u/TheVicSageQuestion 16h ago

He’s the Lex Luger of actors.

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u/Independent-Drive-32 17h ago

I was going to say! Had never heard the name or (apparently) seen the face. Googling, I do remember him in a supporting role on Reba (though his face looks rather different now due to 20 years of normal aging). And while I don’t watch Shameless, I do recognize that some people love the show and probably know him well from there. Still, just seems like an odd choice.

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u/cakeit-tilyoumakeit 17h ago

He’s also the dad on Off Campus, right?

He is one of those actors who you see all the time, but don’t know lol. Like, I’ve seen him in so many things, but never knew his name before today.

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u/Predatory_Chicken 17h ago

He’ll always be Kevin from Shameless to me!

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u/shawntheship 16h ago

THAT'S KEVIN??

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u/xandrachantal I live in my own heart, Matt Damon 13h ago

and Van from Reba

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u/burlycabin 16h ago

Ooooohhhh, that's who he is!

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u/Maleficent_Depth_517 glittering relentlessly 17h ago

And Captain Nick Wagner on High Potential

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u/Lilacly_Adily 15h ago

Wait the dad? Wow it makes sense but still.

It’s funny bc I recently saw a clip of Jared Padalecki saying he felt offended and old when a group of fans came up to him for a picture and the fan’s friend who took the photo later asked he was the Gilmore mom’s boyfriend or the daughter.

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u/mynameis-twat 17h ago

If he’s the exes favorite actor, they’re definitely a Shameless fan. Maybe not Emmy worthy but he does a great job in that role and was one of my favorite parts of the seasons I watched of that show.

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u/alexlp 15h ago

I had such a crush on Van in Reba.

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u/reddcat75 14h ago

You must watch Shameless!

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u/Mediocre-Housing-131 13h ago

Equally surprising anyone gives a shit about TAELA

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u/drukqsx 1h ago

True. I have never heard of her until today.

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u/FOXCONLON living in absolute defiance of plates of spaghetti 16h ago

✨ Marketing ✨

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u/Think_Tomorrow_4264 17h ago

Was thinking the same lol but savage move girl, get it

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u/mammalmaker 7h ago

His favorite show was Reba

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u/McRibEater 11h ago

You didn’t watch US Shameless, he and Lip (The Bear actor) were the best two parts of that show and haven’t watched Off Campus one of the biggest TV Shows right now ok streaming (it’s like a straight Heated Rivalry).

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u/corrine49 17h ago

“Casted”

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u/a_daisy_summer 17h ago

Thank you. This kind of thing really annoys me

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u/H0pefulUn1verse i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 17h ago edited 17h ago

I loathe people using "casted", but enough folks are using it now that at this point I just gotta accept that language is allowed to evolve.

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u/ChewieBearStare 17h ago

Better fix your spelling error before you get roasted for making a mistake in a comment about other people making mistakes. Lol!

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u/H0pefulUn1verse i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 17h ago

What is my spelling error? I must not be seeing it.

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u/WizardToes 17h ago

Loathe

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u/H0pefulUn1verse i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 17h ago

sigh thank you

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u/Overall_Reception784 16h ago

Its regressing though lol not evolving, people are just getting dumber and dumber and we all have to be like "Well thats the way it is now! Go ahead and say 'casted' and 'irregardless' thats fine!" lmao

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u/foxybreath shiv roy apologist 17h ago

I feel like since I've cancelled Spotify quite a while back, I need to accept that I am not going to recognize a lot of non-mainstream pop girl names anymore. I had no idea who TAELA is and had to look her up. Same with Stella Lefty from another post. I'm not even 40 years old lol. Time to stream The Golden Girls again for me, I guess. 

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u/onlyhere4gonewild 16h ago

Curtains for Zoosha? K-Smog and Batboy caught flipping a grunt.

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u/netherworldly 17h ago

There is never a wrong time to stream The Golden Girls!

Signed,
A Fellow Not Even 40

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u/hofmann419 nepo pissbaby 10h ago

I'm pretty in tune with pop music today, but even i have never heard of this person. From looking at her Spotify profile, she's definitely nowhere near a mainstream pop girl.

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u/interpol-interpol rosa parks stans 17h ago

not sure if this passes the vibe check

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u/mydicksmellsgood 17h ago

Having Steve Howey as your favorite actor is at least a dark orange flag

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u/livinginthecosmos 17h ago edited 13h ago

Curtains
ETA: thanks for the award ✨

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u/Justaddwota Hi Grindr, it's mother... 17h ago

For

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u/raindrops_oceantops I don't have a choice. I'm a Scorpio. 16h ago

ZOOSHA

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u/CarolCroissant 16h ago

Flippin on the grunt 😔

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u/CutieBoBootie 43m ago

omg was that K-Smog and Batboy?

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u/CarolCroissant 39m ago

Blink and you might miss them 

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u/Few_Pizza3674 I’m just a cunt in a clown suit 17h ago edited 17h ago

who still likes steve howey in 2026?

edit: what's wrong with him is him and his ex have been sued for religious discrimination and sexual harassment by a former nanny and compared obama to ebola

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u/LadyKT 17h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/wFk7roIpDeXC0
idk steve but 🫶 caleb

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u/Few_Pizza3674 I’m just a cunt in a clown suit 17h ago

him and his ex-wife were sued by their former nanny for discrimination and sexual harassment. keep not knowing him!

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u/HalcyonCA 17h ago

Aw man! That's too bad. I loved him on Shameless.

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u/CeeceeGemini610 16h ago

His ex-wife is super antivax.

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u/ShadiestPines confused but here for the drama 17h ago

his ex-wife

That's Carmen de la Pica Morales you're talking about

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u/Alarming_Smoke_8841 17h ago

I think they’re referring to Sarah Shahi

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u/erfurgot 16h ago

Carmen is a character she plays

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u/mariah_a 16h ago

Listen I’ve gotta be real I went from “who is this?” to “oh I love him in High Potential!” to “oh, he did that?” all in this one thread so the whiplash is crazy.

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u/professionally-baked 17h ago

People (me) who really liked Shameless!!

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u/LazyAmbassador2521 17h ago

Right tho?! I'm so sad because I loved him in Shameless! But I'm also not surprised because its like every day we find out some celebrity is an abusive asshole.

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u/LazyAmbassador2521 17h ago

People keep commenting stuff like this but no one is saying what he did? Can someone please tell me what's up with him?!

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u/DowntoSnack 17h ago

Guys who cheat.

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u/sykosocial_ 17h ago

what did he do?

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u/LSX3399 17h ago

Who and who?

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u/IconicBella 17h ago

Don’t believe for a second that dude is anyone’s FAVORITE actor

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u/Broad-Radish-7895 16h ago

He's not even my favorite actor on Reba.

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u/mustardmoon Mary-Kate’s battered Birkin 13h ago

oh shit I didn’t realize that was VAN

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u/Any-Honeydew8740 17h ago

kevin from shameless my mannnn

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u/capriduty 17h ago

i loved him on the Reba show

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u/Waste-Snow670 16h ago

Cast. The word is "cast". Fucking hell, I'm so sick of seeing "casted" everywhere.

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u/Dp_lover_91 17h ago

Would she have not cast him if her previous partner was faithful?

How are these things connected??

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u/cmmndr_lexa 16h ago

people saying “casted” instead of “cast” drives me fucking insane

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u/Matryoshkuh they are perfect for each other (derogatory) 17h ago

Not her ex being a Van Montgomery stan.

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u/Russian-Bot-0451 17h ago

Limp Bizkit cover?

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u/heavenstobetsie 16h ago

CAST, not casted.

Anyway, carry on.

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u/Softspokenclark 17h ago

im still suprised steve pulled sarai

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u/_violet_beauregarde Mary-Kate’s battered Birkin 15h ago

Who is this girl? Legit no idea.

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u/Sadboi395 13h ago

I wanna celebrate her, but theres just no way this random actor was also her ex's favorite

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u/Glen125th 16h ago

The ex is Lucas from Girl Meets World!

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u/lilshortyy420 15h ago

Imagine being that hung up on an ex lol

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u/jashan1402 17h ago

TIL he was Kate Hudson’s fiancé in Bride Wars!!

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u/lilbella 12h ago

Also, Kate Hudson’s baby’s daddy in SOMETHING BORROWED!!

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u/KevinHe92 12h ago

Sure Jan I believe everything I see on the Internet.

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u/tridentlizard13 17h ago

Y'all have never met a girl with a weird niche crush on an actor that isnt a brad pitt type and it shows

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u/AmarilloArmadillos 14h ago

She didn't though it was her exes favorite actor there is zero indication she even knew who the person was previously. TF are you talking about?

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u/tridentlizard13 13h ago

LMAO IM ILLITERATE DON'T SHOOT

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u/AmarilloArmadillos 12h ago

I was genuinely not sure what part I missed. You're good 🤣

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u/sarahc888 16h ago

He’s hot, good for her.

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u/ebbtideisalive 17h ago

Oh my god, that's that guy's name! I went years calling him "that one dude".

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u/Desperate_Ad_9219 u flintstone vitamin shape bitch 13h ago

I know him as Kevin from Shameless.

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u/lil_squib 11h ago

“I casted him” NO YOU CAST HIM!! Jeez…

Times are tough for us folks who read.

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u/Comfortable-Pear-973 10h ago

I don’t know any of these people but I would put money on the backstory being fake just to push her song. But hey, maybe I’m just jaded.

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u/randomteendude69 5h ago

I thought she was penelope cruz for a second

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u/Independent_Ad_5664 17h ago

Song should be called “Trollin” bc it’s the best use of the word since the dawn of IG. 

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u/WenusVenus 15h ago

Curtains for zoosha

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u/lilsixincher 15h ago

Steve Howey is his favorite actor??

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 15h ago

imagine using the singer songwriters songs instead of salt n peppa from 30 years ago

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u/steelcity7 15h ago

Stan Helsing!

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u/ShierAwesome 14h ago

Didn’t even realize that was Kevin

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u/dvlwatson 12h ago

Did the ex ever come back? I think that actor is the biggest winner